12:15 to 13:15
Symposium

Natural forms and symbolic classifications

Philippe Descola
The life of shapes
12:15 to 13:15
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Philippe Descola

    Collège de France

    Events

    Symposium
    09:00 to 10:00
    Pierre Corvol et Jean-Pierre Changeux

    Opening
    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:30
    Anne Fagot-Largeault

    Form in Plato & Aristotle
    Symposium
    10:15 to 11:15
    Alain Connes

    Duality between forms and spectra
    Symposium
    11:15 to 12:15
    Stanislas Dehaene

    Geometric shapes and the universality of mathematical intuitions
    Symposium
    12:00 to 13:00
    Pierre Fayet

    Matter in all its forms
    Symposium
    13:45 to 14:30
    Jean-Claude Pecker

    Forms in the Universe and form of the Universe
    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:30
    Jacques Reisse

    The first forms of life
    Symposium
    15:15 to 16:15
    Philippe Janvier

    A paleontological history of living forms : the first vertebrates as we imagine them
    Symposium
    16:15 to 17:15
    Denis Duboule

    Genetics and the architecture of life
    Symposium
    17:00 to 18:00
    Alain Prochiantz

    Life and the mathematization of the world
    Symposium
    17:45 to 18:45
    Claude Debru

    Anatomical shapes and physiological functions from Claude Bernard to the present day
    Symposium
    09:00 to 10:00
    Jean-François Mangin

    The shape of the brain
    Symposium
    09:45 to 10:45
    Pieter Roelfsema

    Brain Mechanisms that Integrate Features for the Perception of Visual Shape
    Symposium
    10:45 to 11:45
    Marc Smith

    The shapes of the Latin alphabet, between writing and reading
    Symposium
    11:30 to 12:30
    Jean-Jacques Hublin

    Neanderthal and early symbolic behavior
    Symposium
    12:15 to 13:15
    Philippe Descola

    Natural forms and symbolic classifications
    Symposium
    14:00 to 15:00
    Marcel Hénaff

    Form of built space, form of thought : from the Bororo village to the network city
    Symposium
    14:45 to 15:45
    John Scheid

    Metamorphosis in Greco-Roman antiquity. Around Ovid's Metamorphoses
    Symposium
    15:30 to 16:30
    Mireille Delmas-Marty

    Forms, standards and dogmas
    Symposium
    16:30 to 17:30
    Antoine Compagnon

    Literary form
    Symposium
    17:15 to 18:15
    François-Bernard Mâche

    The life of Musical Forms
    Symposium
    18:00 to 19:00
    Michel Hochmann

    Fables, Formes, Figures - tribute to André Chastel

    See also

    Opening symposia
    The life of shapes